Saint Crispina

Crispina was a noblewoman of Thagaste, in present-day Algeria, the same town where Saint Augustine would later be born. During the persecution of Diocletian she was brought before the proconsul Anulinus at Theveste and ordered to sacrifice to the gods. The record of her trial shows her calm and firm answers: she would worship only the one true God. She was beheaded on December 5, 304, and Saint Augustine later praised her courage in his sermons.

She appears among the procession of virgin martyrs in the famous 6th-century mosaics of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna.